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Archive | January, 2016

When your account is about to hit a milestone in numbers, do you get nervous what should be your next pin/tweet/post should be? I do. It’s silly, but you want your 1,000th or 10,000th tweet to be something good. My Pinterest account is currently sitting on 2,499 pins. What should be my 2,500th pin?!

We hear all about how mobile is overtaking desktop. PC desktop sales have been sliding since 2011 (via anthonynotes.com). Most news websites are now mobile first. There’s even cool graphs to show this: But what about yourself? Are you visiting more webpages on mobile than desktop? Out of my friends and family, I’m usually the […]

Image if Google’s reverse image search allowed you to sort by date. That way it can help you find the original source of an image. I want to find the original source of the image in this tweet. Doing a reverse image search on Google for this image results in a bajillion options: So many […]

Twitter is considering expanding the twitter character limit to 10,000 characters. The average character length for words is 5.1, so that makes 1,960 words. Who would write 1,960 words in a tweet?! If they are going to extend the limit, at least make it a short-style blog post, like 300 words. For comparison, newspaper columns run […]

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Hi. I'm Matt Maldre. I've been working in the syndication business for over 17 years. How do we create, read, and share? Honest and bold opinions on publishing and syndication in this weekly blog.
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This makes me feel better about being a generalist. I often yearn to dive really deep into one area, to really master it, and have the sense of accomplishment. But your post here excellently explains the value of being a generalist.